Stress causes chemical changes in our body. These chemicals were once crucial to our survival - they’ve played an important part in our evolution - but they can be quite destructive nowadays.

We call these chemical changes the fight, flight or freeze response. When we become stressed, our body responds as humans always have - we assume that whatever has caused the stress is a threat to our physical safety (even when it isn’t) and it’s natural to either fight it, run from it, or as we’ve recently discovered… to simply freeze.

Our body doesn’t know the difference between a physical and a psychological threat, so fight, flight or freeze is also a natural response to hassles like having an argument, sitting in traffic, or trying to get through a mountain of work. This means that any negative emotions like worry, impatience or anger can cause our body to:

Increase our heart rate
Pump stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol through our system
And redirect blood from our digestive system into our muscles and limbs

Basically, it’s a heightened state of awareness that prepares us for action, but the days of needing to run from a sabertoothed-tiger are long gone!

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